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Global Climate Change DigestA Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone DepletionPublished July 1988 through June 1999

FROM VOLUME 12, NUMBER 3, MARCH 1999

NEWS...Pew Center on Global Climate Change

In
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Carving a New Path [EM:
The Air & Waste Management Associations Magazine for
Environmental Managers 43-46 (March 1999)], K. Sullivan and S. Hunt
describe how the Pew Center on Global Climate Change was formed in May
1998 as an objective voice to effectively respond to the challenge of
climate change. The Center promotes a positive and pragmatic approach by
educating the public and policymakers and promoting a new role for the
business community. Its Business Environment Leadership Council endorses
four broad principles on (1) the sufficiency of information on climate
change for action; (2) opportunities for emission reductions; (3)
implementing market-based mechanisms for control of greenhouse-gas
emissions; and (4) addressing climate change while sustaining economic
growth through reasonable policies, programs, and transition strategies.
The Center emphasizes early action and dialogue on global equity and
market mechanisms.